"I hope not."

Jen wasn't sure how to comfort her friend, so she just spoke honestly. "Look, the pendant showed up with Patricia, and the DNA tests checked out. Even if we were wrong, we can't blame ourselves... We just got outplayed by someone who was two steps ahead."

They had been working in broad daylight, while whoever did this operated in the shadows.

There was no way they could have seen it coming. The search for her daughter had been strictly confidential before ...